Guest guest Posted May 10, 2002 Report Share Posted May 10, 2002 Observing directly what goes on throughout this body and mind, and refusing to live blindly under the constant influence of conditioning and belief. Seeing clearly that unless there is open awareness this moment, now, mind/body functions mechanically, habitually, according to ingrained patterns and influences. Realizing that it is not possible to respond wholeheartedly to people and ever changing situations if there is inattention and recoil into the dream of an independent self. Without careful attention, ancient or newly acquired programs react immediately and compulsively, and create the conflict of presumed separation. Gracefully, when what is going on right now reveals itself "as it is" --not just mind thinking or speculating about it but looking and listening directly, quietly -- the energy to attend to it is there. Habitual baggage drops away when This reveals Itself, without the effort to manipulate outcomes for some desired result. Obviously, everything done, felt, thought, said, resisted or repressed uses energy. Conflict uses up energy. Wanting something other than what is, without clear awareness of that fact, consumes energy. Thinking of a desired goal and straining body and mind to attain it takes energy. Sometimes, often, it happens at the expense of being intimately in touch with what is actually present, right now, without any resistance or struggle to change it. The energy of attention is there when the mind pauses to wonder about itself and all of the Mystery -- listening quietly, nonselfcenteredly, without the demand of knowing – and falls naturally into the Aware Space in Which it arises and dissolves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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